This exhibit briefly recounts the over 50-year history of Westinghouse’s combustion turbine—also known as gas turbine—business, starting with its birth in the late 1940s as an outgrowth of Westinghouse’s Aviation Gas Turbine Division (AGTD). AGTD was born during World War II as the developer and supplier of jet engines for the U.S. Navy’s carrier-based fighter planes, and remained a major supplier to the Navy until Westinghouse exited that business in 1960.
The story told here really begins with the early pioneering applications by Westinghouse of gas turbines for industrial and electric power generation in the 1950. It continues through the exciting development of the electric utility market in the late 1960s and into the 1970s with the advent of the new combined cycle—gas turbine and steam turbine—power plant technology. The narrative continues through the lean times for the U.S. gas turbine market during the early 1980s, only to be supplanted by the growing international market—especially in the Middle East—for large gas turbine generators. This was followed by the boom years with the growth of the Independent Power Producer (IPP) market of the late 1990s.
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